Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
What Is Data Strategy for a 50-Person Company?
Your 50-person company doesn't need an enterprise data strategy. You need to answer five questions.
Read →How to Prioritize Data Requests in 3 Steps
When everything is "high priority," nothing gets done. Here's how to fix your data request backlog in three steps.
Read →AI-Ready Means Data-Ready
Your AI strategy won't save you if your data is a mess. Gartner says 80% of digital organizations risk failure without modern data …
Read →Platform Review: 3-Month ROI for a Series B Startup
Every growing startup hits the same three data problems. Not similar. Identical.
Read →The Destabilizing Effect of Constant Org Chart Shuffle
Only 23% of reorganizations achieve their objectives. The other 77% just reset the clock.
Read →Data Mesh vs Reality - Why Silos Return
You decentralized your data team. Now you have 10 data silos instead of 1.
Read →We Shipped Fast. We Paid Slowly
The problem isn't shipping fast. It's not being able to fix fast.
Read →The Data Trust Paradox - Why 67% Don't Believe
Data trust is asymmetric. You lose it fast. You earn it slowly.
Read →Technical Debt Is Like Credit Card Interest - It Compounds
Think of technical debt like a credit card. Your data platform maxed it out years ago. Your engineers? They're stuck paying the minimum …
Read →Data Consultancy vs Data Products - The Expensive Confusion
A data team that only consults will never scale. A data team that only builds will never be used.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.